{"product_id":"the-fiber-and-the-river-declan-forsythe-9798235073913","title":"The Fiber and the River: Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a black bridge over the Chattahoochee River, a surveillance officer hears a splash he cannot yet explain. Within minutes, a white station wagon crosses the water - and a case that has haunted Atlanta for nearly two years begins, at last, to break open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1979 and 1981, the murders of nearly thirty Black children and young adults convulsed a city that had built its identity on racial progress. The Fiber and the River traces the full arc of the Atlanta Child Murders: the grassroots mothers' movement that forced a reluctant police department to act, the FBI profilers who began building a portrait before any suspect had a name, and the extraordinary forensic breakthrough - a single carpet fiber, traced through a manufacturing chain to one bedroom, with odds calculated at one in thirty million - that convicted Wayne Bertram Williams of two murders and closed twenty-two more without a single additional trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on trial transcripts, GBI wiretap evidence, and the published doubts of the FBI's own profilers, this is a rigorously researched account that credits the science fully while refusing to look away from what it didn't settle. Families are still waiting. A river is still keeping secrets. The verdict, four decades on, has never stopped being argued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Declan Forsythe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235073913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silverback Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Declan Forsythe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002085220607,"sku":"9798235073913","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fiber-and-the-river-declan-forsythe-9798235073913","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}